Cuban officers have staged crews within the japanese a part of the nation to assist launch restoration efforts as quickly as Hurricane Melissa strikes out, President Miguel Díaz-Canel mentioned in a message to the general public, in accordance with state newspaper Granma.
“There are already electricity brigades, water resources brigades, communications brigades, and construction brigades that will work together with the forces in each territory to recover from the damage,” Díaz-Canel mentioned, noting the storm is “one of the strongest, most severe, or perhaps the strongest hurricanes to have passed through the national territory.”
“There will be a lot of work to do,” Diaz-Canel mentioned, acknowledging the hurricane’s harmful potential. Still, he expressed confidence in Cuba’s “full capacity to recover in food production, in the reconstruction of homes that are destroyed or damaged,” in addition to within the restoration of the economic system.
More than 735,000 folks had been evacuated in Cuba as of Tuesday evening, the president said.